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Ferranti Ltd, electrical engineers

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Alternative name(s):
  • Ferranti International plc (Later known as)
Date: 1872-1995
Places:
  • Cheadle, Cheshire
Functions, occupations and activities: Engineering: Electrical > Electrical engineering and contracting
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C123973 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B1738 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1872-1968: Ferranti family papers incl business records
Science and Industry Museum
2
c1875-1933: articles of association, reports, accounts, costing and wages records, technical data, patents, corresp, papers etc
Science and Industry Museum
NRA 13215

See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
3
1898-1995: business records
Science and Industry Museum
4
1943-1966: papers rel to employment of Eric Hall Lomas incl Ferranti Sick Benefit Fund booklet; Ferranti Ltd Works Pension Scheme booklet; Engineering Employers' Federation Think About Safety booklet; Working With Ferranti booklet; Ferranti Ltd Works Pension Scheme leaflet; Ferranti Ltd statement of employment; Union of Lancashire & Cheshire Institutes Preparatory Senior Technical Course certficate
Science and Industry Museum
5
1956-1985: papers and photographs rel to Alan Bardsley's employment at Ferranti Ltd incl reports and satirical cartoons
Science and Industry Museum
6
1960-1989: papers rel to Cliff Wimpenny's employment as company archivist
Science and Industry Museum
See Annual Return 2008
7
c1970-1993: records rel to Ferranti Computer Division
Science and Industry Museum
8
c1985: papers and drawings of Ferranti Instrumentation Limited
Science and Industry Museum
See Annual Return 2008
9
1989: user manuals and related records
Science and Industry Museum
See Annual Return 2016
10
1940-1987: collection compiled by D W Alford rel to the history and development of an oscillogyro at the Ferranti Aircraft Equipment Department, Bracknell and later Ferranti Defence Systems Ltd, Edinburgh
Science and Industry Museum
See Annual Return 2022
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
Martin Figg, Appointed as General Manager, of Mitchell Hydraulics which at the time was part of Ferranti Instrumentation Limited, Naval Department. Martin Figgs continued to work for the company unitl 1993 during which time Mitchell Hydraulics went through a great deal of rationlisation.
c1980-1990
Associative